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The article reviews the book, "The Samuel Gompers Papers. Vol. 1: The Making of a Union Leader, 1850-86," edited by Stuart B. Kaufman, et al.

This article reviews the book, "Dynamisme humain dans l'excellence organisationnelle," by Pierre-Marc Meunier & Marcel Laflamme.

This article reviews the book, "International Labour Standards : The Case of Freedom to Strike," by Ruth Ben-Israel.

This article reviews the book, "La liberté syndicale - Manuel d'éducation ouvrière," by Bureau international du travail.

The article reviews the book, "The War against the Seals: A History of the North American Seal Fishery," by Briton Cooper Busch.

This article reviews the book, "Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853-1955," by Andrew Gordon.

This article reviews the book, "Policing Industrial Disputes: 1893-1985," by Roger Geary.

This collection of essays offers a comprehensive examination of the working class experience in British Columbia and contains essential background knowledge for an understanding of contemporary relations between government, labour, and employees. It treats workers' relationship to the province's resource base, the economic role of the state, the structure of capitalism, the labour market and the influence of ethnicity and race on class relations. --Publisher's description

The article reviews the book, "Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia, by Susan G. Davis.

This paper examines the effect and the constitutionality of the statutory bar as it impacts on workers and their dependents and comments on the significance and the merits of the constitutional challenges to the statutory bar which have already emerged. Statutory reforms which would help alleviate the strains while preserving intact the integrity of the worker compensation system are briefly reviewed.

In 1981 the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) staged a strike in Ontario Hospitals. This dissertation is an exploratory case study of the causes and effects of that strike. The dissertation employs elements of the labour process theory to evaluate the hospital worker's action and in so doing provides an opportunity to contribute to the on-going debate concerning this theory. The study is centred on the hospitals of Greater Hamilton and Burlington Ontario. It assesses the role of political environment, union structure and action, and gender in creating and sustaining the conditions for strike action in the public sector. The economic and political situation leading to the strike is analyzed with a view to understanding how the fiscal crisis in Canada led to the strike. Labour legislation and the fiscal policies of the federal and provincial governments had an impact on hospitals and their workers. Labour legislation in the hospital sector destroyed collective bargaining at a time when changes unpopular with the workers were taking place in the hospital. This encouraged the decision to strike. The majority of hospital workers in 1981 were women. The dissertation explores, through interviews and archival data, a possible link between gender and the decision to strike. Some changes in the organization of hospital work broke an important care-giving link between women workers and patients. The repercussions of the strike include charges for the union, for women, and the wider political consequences such as the further undermining of the Hospital Labour Disputes Arbitration Act. The dissertation concludes that the strike was caused by labour process changes made by management faced with government cost cutting measures. These changes were particularly upsetting to the majority of workers who were women. The illegality of the strike did not deter the decision to strike because the government labour legislation had destroyed the 'normal' bargaining process. Therefore workers felt that there was no real choice but to strike

This article reviews the book, "The Party That Changed Canada," by Lynn McDonald.

This thesis examines the race and ethnic relations between migrant seasonal agricultural workers in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada, from the turn of the century to the present. This analysis includes Chinese, Doukhobor, Japanese, Indian, and French agricultural workers. The research problem is one of determining the nature of race and ethnic relations between these groups and the predominantly English host community, where it was hypothesized that racism, ethnic prejudice, and ethnic discrimination would be prevalent. Historical research was conducted using existing local literature and archival data from local museums and newspaper companies. Survey research was conducted on contemporary migrant seasonal agricultural workers and consisted of a questionnaire. The thesis begins with a description of the Okanagan Valley and a literature review of agricultural labour in Western Europe, the United States, and Canada. Segmented labour markets and, race and ethnic relations provide the theoretical framework for the study. The secondary labour market explains the concentration of racial and ethnic minorities in agriculture. A theoretical model of French-English ethnic relations explains the ethnic discrimination of French migrant seasonal agricultural workers. The historical research findings show that racism was experienced by Chinese and Japanese workers, and ethnic discrimination was experienced by Doukhobor workers. The survey research included a general documentation of demographic and social data for current migrant workers, and these data indicate they are similar to workers elsewhere. The housing and working conditions of these workers are poor. Workers are exposed to dangerous chemical pesticides. The main survey research findings centre on the ethnic discrimination experienced by French migrant workers. This discrimination occurred primarily in their leisure activities, and to a lesser extent, in the area of employment. There was no evidence of a split-labour market on the basis of wages alone. The thesis ends with a discussion on the possible legislative and social policy implications of the findings in the areas of health and safety, and racial/ethnic prejudice and discrimination. There is a discussion of discrimination and the law, educational programs, and the necessary changes in community processes and structures.

The article reviews the book, "The New Brunswick Worker in the 20th Century: A Reader's Guide. A Selective Annotated Bibliography = Les Travailleurs en Nouveau-Brunswick au 20eme siècle : un guide au lecteur. Bibliographie choisie et annotée," compiled by David Frank, Carol Ferguson, Richard Clair, Richard McClellan, and Raymond Leger.

The article reviews and comments on "What is Feminism?' (1986), edited by Juliet Mitchell and Ann Oakley.

This article reviews the book, "Discrimination, Jobs, and Politics," by Paul Burstein.

This article reviews the book, "John L. Lewis: A Biography," by Melvyn Dubofsky and Warren Van Tine.

The article reviews the book, "DP: Lithuanian Immigration to Canada after the Second World War," by Milda Danys.

Except for the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) which employed black cooks and waiters in its dining cars, Canadian railway companies employed blacks almost exclusively as sleeping car porters from the late 1880s until the amalgamation of the dining car and poerters' locals of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Transport and General Workers (CBRT) in 1964. The process of forming an ethnically submerged split labour market was completed in the 1920s when the Canadian National Railways (CNR) took over the GTR and replaced black waiters in the dining cars on fomer GTR cars with white employees. Moreover, the company and the CBRT agreed to a group classification system which restricted blacks to being porters only. The Canadian Pacific Railway's policies of importing Americna porters from the United Sates and of stifling porters' efforts to organize were instrumental in creating a double split labour market. The Canada Fair Employment Practices Act in 1953, however, gave proters the leverage they need to combat discrimination in railway employment. The data came from oral history, organizational records, government documents and other secondary sources.

English/French abstracts of articles in the issue.